At a 2024 landowners' meeting a tribal rancher gave Bannock Creek its Bannock and Shoshone names, among them Pasakwa Huude, part of a wider effort on the reservation to bring Native place names back into use.
Shoshone-Bannock Fish & Wildlife crews built 31 imitation beaver dams on West Fork Bannock Creek and let two beavers go there in the fall of 2019, and by 2020 the creek was carrying more trout.
In June 1965 more than a hundred Pocatello businessmen and Arbon Valley farmers shared breakfast up Mink Creek and toured the valley from Sod Williams's ranch to a proposed dam on Bannock Creek, and a week later a guest scolded the Journal for reporting a tour it never joined.
When melting snow sent the creeks over their banks in late March 1962, Arbon Valley lost its roads, its power and its telephone, and the mail came in over planks laid across a broken highway.
In March 1955 Rodney Smith and Calvin Williams, two young men off Arbon Valley farms, pulled a toboggan into snowbound Garden Creek basin, lived six days in a tent and came out sure of a good water year.
In 1938 Joe Arbon told a Pocatello committee that a well watered 100 acres of his Arbon Valley farm, as he and Roy Lindley joined a plan for a Michaud Flat test well that struck water in 1939.
In the hot, dry summer of 1935, with grain dying on the reservation farms, the Fort Hall agency ordered settlers at the head of Bannock Creek to give back the Indians' share of its water.
In the fall of 1917 David J. Bowen told the American Falls Press how he found water on Knox Creek in 1892, built a cabin of aspen logs the next year and became postmaster of the valley's first post office.
Through 1915 the *American Falls Press* followed Arbon Valley homesteaders as they filed in Knox Canyon and on the ranges, drilled for water, built houses and sold out.
In July 1910 an Arbon rancher came to Pocatello talking of a commercial club, an irrigation company and a Pioneer Day, and the *Tribune* put Arbon on its front page.
In October 1904 a federal judge let the Fort Hall agent's suit over Bannock Creek water go forward against Dave Daniels and his neighbors, and the settlers asked to bring in every user.